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HARUSPEX SIMILIS. new species 



This species is closely allied to insularis Fisher, but it differs from 

 that species in having the pronotum more uniformly reddish brown 

 and in having- the reddish-brown markings on each elytron arranged 

 as follows: A narrow vitta along sutural margin behind the scutel- 

 lum; a narrow, irregular fascia extending obliquely backward from 

 the humerus to the middle of disk at middle, and a narrow fascia 

 extending obliquely backward from the sutural margin at middle to 

 the middle of disk at apical third, the two fasciae connected ex- 

 ternally to a narrow, irregular vitta along the lateral declivity. 



Length, 8.75 mm ; width, 2.25 nmi. 



Type locality. — Trinidad, West Indies. 



Type.—U.^kM. no. 50971. 



Remarks. — Described from a single specimen collected during 

 June, by August Busck. With a good series of specimens for study, 

 insularis Fisher and sifmlis Fisher may prove to be simply varieties 

 of inscriptus Gahan. 



MANILLA TUBERCULATA, new species 



Short, oval, strongly convex, subopaque, uniformly dark reddish 

 brown, with the tarsi and bases and apices of antennal joints yellow- 

 ish, and the elytra inconspicuously ornamented with whitish pubes- 

 cence. 



Head with the front strongly transverse, nearly flat, feebly, 

 broadly concave between the antennal tubercles, which are widely 

 separated and feebW elevated, ^yith a vague, longitudmal groove 

 extending from occiput to middle of front; surface coarsely, con- 

 fluently punctate, sparsely clothed with short, recumbent, whitish 

 pubescence; eyes small, narrow, rather deeply emarginate, separated 

 from each other on the top bj^ four times the width of the upper 

 lobe. Antenna nearly as long as the body, rather densely clothed 

 with short, recumbent pubescence; first joint robust, oblong, flattened 

 beneath at base, subequal in length to the fourth joint, which is 

 two-thirds as long as the third, the following joints slightly shorter 

 than the fourth and subequal in length. 



Pronotum distinctly wider than long, narrower at apex than at 

 base, widest at middle; sides strongly, arcuately rounded; disk 

 strongly convex, more or less transversely^ gibbose at middle, feebly, 

 transversely flattened anteriorly; surface coarsely, confluently punc- 

 tate, rather densely clothed at the sides with short, recumbent, whit- 

 ish, scalelike hairs. Scutellum strongly transverse, broadly rounded 

 at apex, feebly concave at middle. 



Elytra two and one-half times as long as pronotum, at base subequal 

 in width to pronotum at middle, widest at middle; sides strongly, 



